European Cup 25/26

[Mutley]

The draw is tomorrow, which has come round quick.

Who we looking forward to drawing out of the hat?

Newcastle nailed on, Real Madrid too. Don't mind who else, we'll beat em all...

[Hassony]

51 minutes ago, Mutley said:

The draw is tomorrow, which has come round quick.

Who we looking forward to drawing out of the hat?

Newcastle nailed on, Real Madrid too. Don't mind who else, we'll beat em all...

Can't face English teams 

Won't face scottish teams 

1 in 3 chances of facing Real, so probably likely to happen 

[Gethin]

6 minutes ago, Hassony said:

Can't face English teams 

 

That may change - with 6 English and 5 Spanish teams in the draw they may have to remove country protection (at a guess for the two bonus teams - Newcastle and Villareal) to be able to do the draw properly. Would expect a clarification on that in a few days time - or maybe UEFA will just f***ing make it up as they go along

Pots are (from https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedcl2025.html) - teams we can't draw in italics

Pot 1

• Paris Saint-Germain    Fra 118.500              
• Real Madrid                  Esp 143.500              
• Manchester City          Eng 137.750
• Bayern München         Ger 135.250              
• Liverpool                         Eng 125.500              
• Internazionale              Ita 116.250              
• Chelsea                        Eng 109.000
• Borussia Dortmund     Ger 106.750              
• FC Barcelona               Esp 103.250                

Pot 2

• Arsenal                         Eng  98.000  
• Bayer Leverkusen       Ger  95.250  
• Atlético Madrid            Esp  93.500  
• Benfica                         Por  87.750  
• Atalanta                        Ita  82.000  
• Villarreal                       Esp  82.000  
• Juventus                      Ita  74.250  
• Eintracht Frankfurt      Ger  74.000  
• Club Brugge                Bel  71.750   

Pot 3

• Tottenham Hotspur      Eng  70.250
• PSV Eindhoven             Ned  69.250              
• Ajax                               Ned  67.250              
• Napoli                            Ita  61.000              
• Sporting CP Lisbon      Por  59.000              
• Olympiakos Piraeus     Gre  56.500              
• Slavia Praha                 Cze  51.000              
• Bodø/Glimt                   Nor  49.000              
• Olympique Marseille    Fra  48.000  

Pot 4

• FC København             Den  44.875  
• AS Monaco                  Fra  41.000  
• Ferencváros                 Hun  39.000  
• Galatasaray                  Tur  38.250  
• Union Saint-Gilloise     Bel  36.000
• Athletic Bilbao             Esp  26.750
• Newcastle United       Eng  23.039  
• Pafos FC                     Cyp  11.125  
• Kairat Almaty               Kaz  5.500

[Murdoch]

Minimise travel, avoid 'bigger' teams in and around any tougher fixtures in the league. Apart from that I'm really not bothered. You have to be really s*** to not get out of this stupid league format so I hope we learnt from last year and leave more energy in the tank for when it gets important.

[Gethin]

Fixtures either side of the games. Week 1 games may be on Tuesday-Thursday, all others Tuesday & Wednesday 

Week: opponents before / game after 

• 1 : Burnley (A) / Everton (H) 
• 2: Palace (A) / Chelsea (A) 
• 3: United (H) / Brentford (A) 
• 4: Villa (H) / City (A) 
• 5: Forest (H) / West Ham (A) 
• 6: Leeds (A) / Brighton (H) 
• 7: Burnley (H) / Bournemouth (A) - may be without Mo for AFCON 
• 8: Bournemouth (A) / Newcastle (H) 

So Week 2 & 4 are the ones where we could really do with a Pot 3 or 4 team at home. Be interesting to see who we end up with vs City in Week 4 'cos that may have a huge effect on the game that weekend 

Edited August 27, 2025 by Gethin

[Cobs]

play the kids

[Gethin]

1 hour ago, Gethin said:

Would expect a clarification on that in a few days time

What a stupid f***ing thing to write given the draw is tomorrow. Although knowing UEFA....

[Gethin]

Draw takes place at 5pm (UK time) tomorrow 

Edited August 27, 2025 by Gethin

[RedBilledChough]

13 minutes ago, Gethin said:

Draw takes place at 5pm (UK time) tomorrow 

Well that’s when it starts but what time will it actually begin?

[Gethin]

1 minute ago, redjersey said:

Well that’s when it starts but what time will it actually begin?

Just before the Europe League ceremony at lunchtime on Friday 

[Case]

What former players could we face?

Diaz

Alexander-Arnold (and Alonso pedantry fans)

Quansah

Mignolet

McConnell

Carson

Any others?

 

[Gethin]

1 minute ago, Case said:

McConnell

Jaros is also at Ajax. 

[Hassony]

1 minute ago, Case said:

What former players could we face?

Diaz

Alexander-Arnold (and Alonso pedantry fans)

Quansah

Mignolet

McConnell

Carson

Any others?

 

Emre Can

Sterling 

Minamino

Jaros

[Gethin]

21 hours ago, Gethin said:

Pot 4

• FC København             Den  44.875  
• AS Monaco                  Fra  41.000 
• Galatasaray                  Tur  38.250  
• Union Saint-Gilloise     Bel  36.000

• Qarabag FK                 Azb 32.000

• Athletic Bilbao             Esp  26.750
• Newcastle United       Eng  23.039  
• Pafos FC                     Cyp  11.125  
• Kairat Almaty               Kaz  5.500

Small correction after last night's games Qarabag (another potential b*****d of an away) replace Ferencváros in Pot 4

[faithnomore]

https://theanalyst.com/articles/champions-league-draw-2025-26-arsenal-liverpool-chelsea-man-city-spurs-newcastle-best-worst

[Gethin]

17 minutes ago, faithnomore said:

https://theanalyst.com/articles/champions-league-draw-2025-26-arsenal-liverpool-chelsea-man-city-spurs-newcastle-best-worst

Great example of looking at data and ignoring the real world.

Their "best possible draw" involves three potentially really s***e aways. No-one wants to be drawing Qarabag, Almaty or really even the Turkish/Greek/Cypriot teams either. Imagine having to go to Kazakhstan on the Wednesday and then come back and play City or Chelsea at the weekend. 

[cocknose]

Final now at 5pm

[Case]

 - The obligatory CL Draw Simulator

 

 

[PhilM]

1 hour ago, Case said:

 - The obligatory CL Draw Simulator

 

 

Liverpool will play against:

Dortmund H

Internazionale A

Frankfurt H

Villarreal A

Napoli H

PSV A

Kairat H

København A

All day. Best draw ever. No aways in hillbilly backwaters.

[Case]

The draw is live on Amazon Prime for those that have it.

Unconfirmed rumours that Bella Emberg is doing a burlesque turn.  Live Music from Trio and Johnny Hates Jazz.
In between the football chat of course.

[Gethin]

13 minutes ago, Case said:

The draw is live on Amazon Prime for those that have it.

Should also be live via the UEFA website - looks like this is the link 

https://www.uefa.tv/live/289166

[Case]

Aye. It’s on bbc website too

[Case]

Yer wan is spruced up for 6pm on a Thursday in she?

[Greenoak]

Will it finish before 8pm.. ? 

[Gethin]

I've just come back in to see if they'd started. What the b*****d f*** is this self-indulgent w*** they're showing? 

10 minutes ago, Case said:

Yer wan is spruced up for 6pm on a Thursday in she?

The guys have got posh suits on. What's the difference?